Position: Librarian
Location: Defense Media Activity, Department of Defense (Fort Meade)
Posted: USA Jobs
Salary: $99,200-128,956

Summary: This position is part of the Defense Media Activity. The incumbent will be responsible for serving as Chief Librarian of the Defense Information School, providing professional military public affairs and visual information multimedia resources to students and faculty in support of communication occupational training for the Department of Defense.

Duties: As a Librarian at the GS-1410-12 some of your typical work assignments may include:

• Directs the operations, management, and activities of a professional military library.
• Maintain professional partnerships and services with the Library of Congress, DoD MWR Libraries, local community libraries, and Special Libraries Association.
• Provides proactive, customer-oriented services, including reference/research services, training in accessing resources, and instruction in media literacy.
• Advises the Provost on budget resource requirements for annual spend plans, which includes managing the purchasing, leasing, and subscriptions of library materials through the use of an Interagency Service Agreement with the Library of Congress.
• Conducts periodic inventories and implements internal management controls; prepares a variety of statistical reports related to attendance and circulation.
• Acquires, processes, catalogs, and circulates library resources, supplies, and equipment.
• Researches, evaluates and recommends technologies and equipment to support library functions.
• Coordinates with the DINFOS public affairs officer to update DINFOS Webpage with internet links to the library’s digital catalog and databases.

Qualifications: You may qualify at the GS-12, if you fulfill the following qualifications:

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service:
  • Planning and executing a library budget in order to advise budget resource requirements for the development and execution of annual spend plans to support library operations.
  • Overseeing the activities of the library and provide assistance, guidance and training to library customers on accessing and retrieving information contained in the library system.
  • Promoting library products and services, and market special library events in order to provides proactive, customer-oriented services, including reference/research services, training in accessing resources, and instruction in media literacy.
• In addition to meeting qualifications, your application package must reflect the applicable experience to meet the Individual Occupational Requirements for the 1410 series:
  • Basic Requirements:
    • All librarians must meet the requirements for professional education in library science or possess equivalent experience and education as shown for GS-7; however, as a standard practice applicants enter at grade GS-9 on the basis of a master’s degree in library science.
    • Since many libraries are highly specialized, some librarian positions require a knowledge of a specialized subject or field of endeavor.. Also, since materials in libraries are often in foreign languages, some librarians must have a proficient knowledge of one or more foreign languages. For such positions, applicants must meet requirements that are directly related to the subject matter or language of the specialization. These requirements are in addition to the basic professional library science requirements that apply to all positions. However, these requirements may be included in or supplemental to those specified for all positions. The following specializations are authorized: biological, medical, social or physical sciences, education, fine arts, business and industry, humanities, law, music, engineering, and the Germanic, Slavic, Oriental, Semitic, or Romance languages.
  • For positions GS-9 and above:
    • Experience must have demonstrated the ability to perform, supervise, or direct one or more of the functional areas of work covered by this series; to understand the concepts, theories, new developments, and co-relationship of information in related fields; and to maintain up-to-date information on the state of the art. For positions where foreign language proficiency is needed, applicants must be able to read and/or translate material in the appropriate specialized subject-matter field.
    • For Librarian (appropriate specialization): Applicants must also possess specialized knowledge of a subject-matter field and/or proficiency in one or more foreign languages directly related to the position(s) being filled. When such knowledge is required for the position, an applicant’s education or experience must have included or been supplemented by the requirements specified in one of the paragraphs below:
    • A full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university that meets all academic requirements for a bachelor’s degree that included at least 24 semester hours in the specialized field for which the applicant is being considered, e.g., physical science, biological science, social science; or that included any combination of subjects with at least 15 semester hours in a major subject (such as physics or chemistry) that is especially applicable to the position for which the applicant is being considered;or
    • Completion of at least 24 semester hours of legal study in an accredited law school for positions primarily concerned with providing library services in law or legislative reference;or
    • Four years of pertinent experience of such nature and level to provide a knowledge of the basic principles, theories, practices, techniques, terminology and expressions of the appropriate discipline or subject-matter field; an understanding of the standard methods, procedures, and techniques of research and analysis in the subject-matter field; ability to acquire additional information about the field and related fields; and some knowledge of literature resources in the field.Such experience should be equivalent to that which would have been acquired through successful completion of a full 4-year curriculum in an accredited college or university with major study in appropriate subjects, or combination of subjects, as specified in (a) above; or legal training as specified in (b) above;or
    • Any time equivalent combination of experience as described in (c) with education as described in (a) or (b) above;or
    • Demonstrated ability as shown by education or experience to read or translate information from one or more foreign languages into English.